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After the release Star Trek: Section 31It is worth listening to the negative criticism to call Star Trek behind the dead franchise. Whether it is true or not, it is difficult to deny the once large sci-fi universe has reached a crisis point.
What exactly happened with the fact that I got Star Trek in this state? Let’s go back to 2017. Star Trek He was out of television for 12 years. The last big piece of trek media released, Star Trek: BeyondHe ended up as a disappointment of the cash register.
So, Paramount He devised a bold new plan to revive Star Trek with Prequel. The franchise just did not do it quite recently. Film from 2009 Star Trek was basically prequel, travel time Spock Shenanigans are damn.
But that was on the big screen; This time we got a series Prequel. The franchise has already done it. It was called BusinessAnd Paramount pulled out a plug after four seasons.
With these projects put into the back and seemingly forgotten, Paramount has moved forward with the Star Trek Prequel series that would serve as a flag show for their new streaming Service, CBS All Access. This third attempt at Prequel Star Trek would be the basis of the new era of franchise. For the third time there was no magic.
Therefore, the disco era Star Trek failed.
How Star Trek got to Disco
Disco era Star Trek did not actually start in the disco era, 70 years, no matter what bones of dressing from Film You may believe. Disco era is named after its foundation series, Star Trek: Discoverywhich debut in 2017. At least spiritually ended with the release Star Trek: Section 31 In 2025 there is a movie that now stands as the worst film Star Trek Rotten Tomatoes According to critics and users.
Star Trek: Discovery It was originally created by Brian Fuller. Fuller was a well -known television writer and producer who wrote for both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Travel in the 90’s. Since then Fuller has become a sought -after talent in the television world and was the creator and showrunner recognized series as Pushed a daisy and Milestone Adaptation of Thomas Harrisa Hannibal.
Had the right resumeand Paramount hired him to create a New Star Trek series. Its initial playground was supposed to do a serialized anthology of species, where every season would tell a specific story at different times in Star Trek history to introduce new characters every season. The first season would be a prequel The original series, And every next season would move Further and then to the future.
The paramount reaction was something along, let’s start with a regular serialized show and then see. Fuller began working on Discovery as his showrunner. He was also in the middle of a meeting as a showrunner for a series American gods.
Paramount encountered Fuller and hired the director for a pilot who Fuller felt that he was not suitable for the project. After these Fuller fighting, he basically ended up leaving production, but maintained a show for a show before it was said and done.
Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts, Fuller Writers, would have gone through the duties of the showrunner and brought from their time Pushed a daisy. Star Trek: Discovery would be premiered under their administration in 2017.
Although the initial critical reaction was positive, the tone and action focus of the show turned off many fans. When it comes to assessing or confidence in streaming viewers’ data, you will be much more fortunate to try to find out a tamarian language.
Star Trek goes full ukel
The first season finally in the world will start production for season 2 with Berg and Harberts still at the helm until both showrunners were released for the first episode of the season that went through the budget and for alleged offensive behavior towards other writers on the show.
Alex Kurtzman came to the second season. Kurtzman was the highlight of a creative talent for recent Star Trek films, including Star Trek: In the darkness. If you want to know our thoughts, check out our video where the title gives it away.
Kurtzman has now held the future of the whole franchise in his hands. Remains in charge of not only Discovery But basically it would become a focal creative voice for Star Trek.
There have been attempts at juice Discovery For more inheritance fans. Anson Mount was introduced as Christopher Pike, and although there are a lot of righteous criticisms, most agrees that his cast and takeover of the character are some of the clear places of the disco era.
Unfortunately, the rest of the show was still a show that was always designed, and adding one good character will not save the show. If the character is not Steve Urkel, I think.
Star Trek introduces quarantine discovery
With multiple projects of a series of trek planned for now rebrand paramount+ streaming service, Star Trek: Discovery In the end, it did not compare with where it seemed that the franchise was heading. It seems to be a reaction to the canon of the series, the time jumping time into the future that nothing he would not do Discover On its own narrative island.
Finally, Anson Mount Christopher Pike would introduce a new series Prequel, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It seems that the fourth time has been a magic. Although Strange new worlds It is technically a disco-version extension, it quickly went to work on a work that differs from the discovery and many mistakes that show in the eyes of fans. Strange new worlds Even fix the klingons.
The discovery would eventually end its run after five seasons, and it should be for the disco era. The franchise has been branched from the series and Paramount was quite determined to work on a number of other Star Trek shows.
Alex Kurtzman is still pushing bad ideas No one wants
Alex Kurtzman, however, tried to make Star Trek: Section 31 Spinoff series since the first season Discovery.
His plan was concentrated around Mirror Universe Villain version of the character played by the actress Michelle Yeoh. You know the brutal dictator who loved violence, the perfect Star Trek products.
The fans were not exactly excited about this idea and Paramount continuously preferred another new series Section 31. In the end, it got, but after the Covid was turned off, it was reconfigured to take the intended story of the series and plunge it into a feature film. Even then, Kurtzman released an update Section 31 Now it was a low priority in terms of current trek projects.
Oscar victory keeps disco era
Paramount is a lack of interest Section 31 would change in March 2023, when Michelle Yeoh won an Oscar for the best actress. Right next month, Star Trek: Section 31 He went to the production as a feature feature film. We think you see why the priority skipped.
In January 2025, Star Trek: Section 31 He arrived as a film with a direct current on Paramount+. It was the first Star Trek movie released in almost ten years. Now stands as the worst film in the whole canon of Star Trek.
There are plenty of Reviewdisorders, And the Rage Videos of the 31 section of 31 if you want to dig into literally bloody details. But just say that Section 31 Acts like what seems to be the final takeover of franchise Alex Kurtzman, And it’s terrible.
Star Trek did not have to go this journey, Requiem for McMahan and Matalas
What is twice disappointing The disco-era is that Paramount had other Star Trek projects that seemed to be much more warmed by fans. Animated series Lower deck managed Be another prequel project, but instead brought lightness and fun back to space trek. Unfortunately, the show was canceled after five seasons and the creator Mike McMahan moved away from the franchise.
Tangential to Disco-Verse was somewhat independent Picard-Verse, futility of a project masking as a series developed around the character of Captain Patrick Stewart Picard. This show was a disaster for two seasons and walked directly into the tonal approach that we saw in the disco era projects until the third season was held by a veteran of the TV showrunner and stained fan Star Terry Matalas.
Matalas added what is widely considered to be the best Star Trek season in modern times of trek. Matalas lobbyed to get more Star Trek projects, including lunch for a show called Star Trek: Legacy This would focus on many classic characters from shows like Next generation. Fans started petitions to try to persuade Paramount to give him the whole franchise.
Instead, Paramount gave Matale. And we got Star Trek: Section 31 instead.
Why did the disco era Star Trek fail
It is not difficult to understand why the Star Trek era could not make the kind of cultural impact we saw from the franchise earlier. He tried to take Star Trek and put it in another skin, never focused on things that fans considered previous previous Star Trek projects.
Although there is still a disco DNA Strange new worlds, and paramount is trying another prequel with Star academy The series, it looks like the trek is at the end of this phase in its franchise identity.
